Imagine someone says to you that there is no God. Life has no point. Is that totally alien to you? Some of us just can't understand that point of view, but I felt that way for a long time.

When I was an atheist, a real God was incomprehensible and absurd to me. And I thought it was my responsibility to convince others of my truth. Ever tried to "get through" to someone with the opposite view? How did that work out for you?

[Last night I discovered an app called Conscious. The app provides daily challenges designed to strengthen one's ability to maintain present-moment conscious awareness - mindfulness training, you could say. Here is today's challenge, and my journal entry about taking it on.]

Challenge: Become aware of moments when you are lost in thinking about the future, whether it's 10 minutes or 2 years from now. Notice how it pulls your attention from the present moment. See the reasons why you...

Editor's Note: Internet is finally fixed in my house, so expect the Daily Bloggity to be published normally for now on.

See that girl there in the picture? That is my girlfriend. Yup, my out of this world girlfriend. On the 4th of July of this year, we celebrated our one year anniversary. It's absolutely insane thinking that her and I have been

Frankly, I tend to believe that whilst Valentines day might have once meant something it is really just a cash cow for businesses to make use of these days, and really we should be doing nice things for the people we love all year round, not just on the fourteenth of February. Yet I have grown to love the excuse to spoil my girlfriend... the problem is today I didn't have the slightest opportunity to do so.

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